Did Tim Apple give us a top level menu option to turn it off? Because if Tim Apple didn’t give us a top level menu option to turn it off, I’m not interested. And I’m not going to be interested until Tim Apple gives us a top level menu option to turn it off. Write that story.

We can lie with a much smaller staff, turns out.

This documentary is going to be a great one.

OK, look, this is the end of a really nice thread. And I don’t want to diminish that. (Go read it.) But this last part, specific to the thread, is what is also so magical in the general sense: the books are always there, waiting for you. How can you not be romantic about literature?

Congressman Jeffries doing his level best to get a soundbite into the inevitable documentary that will be produced about this game.

This technology is necessary! And the future! And revolutionary! For hackers.

IMHO this is the most obvious point at which Objective Journalism fails to meet this moment. "Conspiracy" is the bad-faith public frame used to provide cover for racist policy. Such Journalism can only report on racism if someone admits they're racist, not if they simply say it's something else.

Can’t trust the ID that was a quarter century (and many MANY delays and extensions) in the making. Cool cool.

“The Event however was that the Question was postponed—it is to be renewed on Monday when I mean to move that it should be postponed for 3 Weeks or a Month,” says Rutledge.

And the King making war against his subjects in the colonies proves that they are outside of his protection, which means they also no longer owe him allegiance; allegiance and protection are reciprocal.

They argue that a declaration of independence is nothing more than an acknowledgement of a preexisting fact; the colonies are already independent. They have always been independent of Parliament; Parliament’s laws have had power in the colonies only because colonists have followed them.

John Adams, Richard Henry Lee (who yesterday made the motion to declare independence) and George Wythe are the principal speakers in favor.

They worry that a declaration of independence without the prior approval of all colonies will lead some colonies to leave Congress and the united war effort.

Thomas Jefferson tells us that Rutledge, James Wilson, John Dickinson and Robert R. Livingston (who will be appointed to the committee to draft the Declaration) are the principal speakers against the motion.

8 JUNE 1776, PHILADELPHIA: The Continental Congress debates yesterday’s motion for a Declaration of Independence. “The Sensible part of the House opposed the Motion,” Edward Rutledge of South Carolina writes to John Jay. founders.archives.gov/documents/Ja...

My Students Can’t Read. “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.” [chronicle.com]

The market is going to solve this problem, right? RIGHT?

This is terrible news. RIP Gordon Wood. www.golocalprov.com/news/pulitze...

Some people need to read fewer message boards and more books.

So blinded by concepts of plans, no one saw this coming either, right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Back when you brought in people from elsewhere to develop a syllabus. (Also, it wasn’t back loaded with nine pages of university boilerplate, which seems like an odd shortcoming these days.)

In the first papal address to the Spanish legislature, the American pope said a "moral renewal" was necessary in legislatures and public life to ensure respect for the inherent dignity of all people. n.pr/4406jKd

Exceptionally cool

Sports fans should follow this disheartening thread from @damon.kiesow.net 🧵

Sport was fun, wasn’t it?

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

And, then, censorship. “this is an academic organization calling the police on its own members to silence and punish them for daring to speak out, in the quietest and most academic of ways (here, please read this thing I wrote!)” outsidethebeltway.com/in-front-of-... Via @sltaylor.bsky.social

Having covered the overreaching board, this does not surprise. Back then, it was primarily about athletics. Now it’s about everything at a hugely important land grant school. All of which, by the way, is going according to plan. Quite disappointing.

That’s … not going to be an excuse they appreciate.

Puck: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to decline invite to testify before Congress on sports media deals.

If you cut a city reporter, you lose 10 local stories per week. That means 10 fewer potential reasons for someone to read your publication. If you cut an investigative journalist, you lose one big impact story every six weeks or so. There's no way to do more with less in the news business.

The intermediate step was the ridiculously reductive and altogether insulting “feed the beast.” Via @samadams.bsky.social, who noted “as I have been ranting for many years, calling it ‘content’ turns creative labor into packing peanuts.”

Any sane society would pull the plug on all this dogshit tomorrow

I looked at some tweets yesterday and there were a bunch of people sincerely and earnestly being like “who cares about the journalists, fire them all, people don’t watch 60 Minutes for them! They watch for the stories!” And dawg listen…do we have any theories about how the stories come to be…

If nothing else our growing digital community has facilitated global friendships that enrich our real world lives. Meet up with Cycloz for a walk then tomorrow a locals route through the city on bikes with the team! I’ll try to remember to take pictures…

Celebrate World Bicycle Day 2026 on June 3 Cycling for a Greener Future and Zero Emissions #cycling #ebikes #cargobikes tinyurl.com/4tsasp56

Somebody has all the dirt, and everyone is going to get dirty (and broke) because of it.

Because of your voice on Delaney Hall, the Trump admin just released 18 yr old high school senior whose story I told. They released the pregnant women held inside. These releases show ICE isn’t targeting the violent criminals. ICE is feeling the pressure. Keep raising your voice.

“.. Mr. Pelley sent a statement to The Times that assailed the new leadership of CBS News, writing that ‘incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc’ at the network. He added, ‘The collapse of values at the top has become untenable.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

At a symposium hosted by @uwconline.bsky.social and co-sponsored by the International Association for Communication and Sport and UNESCO (among others). The questions asked, as I read THIS story, “can the World Cup still unify?” and “What should be the measures of soft power success?”

You might read this and wonder, “Why now? Why not last year?” Here’s why. “Speaking for my own institution, compared to this time last year, MIT has experienced a decline in campus research activity funded by federal awards of more than 20%.” Admins would do well to be better at future projection.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Footage from Delaney Hall at the moment where ICE gassed protestors and Senator Andy Kim.

It's a machine that makes you stupid, but it's also a machine that makes you *insufferable* www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Me in my Bluesky bubble.

“The cruelty that you see behind me, this is the point,” Kim said to the protesters prior to the melee, referring to the armored vehicles and armed agents. “Right now I’m trying to have them not point guns at us.” Waiting for the video of a US Senator getting sprayed in his state is 2026.

This is ridiculous for moral and competitive reasons. Also, from a media mechanics point of view isn't there usually a pre-match presser at the site the day before the game? Iran's games are in LA and Seattle, those are both at least two hours from the border. What a joke.

Lovely little story. “The D-Day mystery that began with strangers taking photos of a vacation home” www.cnn.com/travel/canad...

Good. Gracious.

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.